Note that only one of these is a single

[koganbot]

Top five Ke$ha tracks*:

1. Blah Blah Blah
2. Backstabber
3. Party At A Rich Dude's House
4. Cannibal
5. Boots & Boys

The one of these that Lex might like if he didn't know whom it was by would be "Backstabber." There's a chance he'd like "Boots & Boys" as well.

*This does not count the Ke$ha vs. L'Trimm mashup, which if it were eligible would be between 4 and 6. (It will however qualify as a single on my year-end singles list by virtue of The Boots Are Singles Rule.**)

**This Rule doesn't make "Boots & Boys" eligible as a single, however.

Comments

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

What's the The Boots are Singles rule?

[koganbot]

They were calling illegal mashups "bootlegs" in the early '90s.

Btw, "would be between 4 and 6" means would be between 4th and 6th place (would be 8 or 9 on a scale of 0 to 10).

[jonathanbogart.livejournal.com]

Bootlegs (incl. mashups), presumably.

[koganbot]

Yes (but not bootleg albums, obviously, or mashup albums, or mashups that end up as album tracks).

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

The one of these that Lex might like if he didn't know whom it was by would be "Backstabber." There's a chance he'd like "Boots & Boys" as well.

yeah ke$ha is definitely not going to happen for me, like at all, soz

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Not having heard any of the Cannibal songs yet, mine would be:
1. Tik-Tok
2. Stephen
3. VIP
4. Your Love Is My Drug
5. Backstabber

After digging out Animal again last night (coincidence!), I've decided it's very strong in the first half but flags a bit towards the end. Would probably rank it about #15 in my 2010 LPs list at the moment.

[talrose.livejournal.com]

I think I actually like the second half of the album better than the first. All my favorite songs are on the back half:

1. Party At a Rich Dude's House
2. Boots & Boys
3. VIP
4. D.I.N.O.S.A.U.R.
5. Take It Off

[talrose.livejournal.com]

Other than "Take It Off," of course, which I've come to prefer over all the singles due to radio exposure, and also because of that amazing chant where there's that crowd yelling "TAKE IT OFF," which legitimately creeps me out.

Interestingly, my favorite songs on *Cannibal* so far are the ballads, or at least the slow-tempo numbers. It'd have to be either "The Harold Song" or "Crazy Beautiful Life," with maybe "The Harold Song" taking the edge at the moment.

ug

[joshlanghoff.livejournal.com]

Ug, "Harold" is my least favorite off the new one, and maybe my least fave of hers overall. It sounds like she took to heart the haters' complaints about her being a one-dimensional party girl and tried to get serious by singing like Katy Perry. And I'm trying to remember "Crazy Beautiful Life"... the sort of swinging one where she talks about being the new bitch on the block, right. That's pretty good. (Better than Darryl Worley's "Awful Beautiful Life", which I sing in my head whenever I see the title.)

My count:
1. Your Love Is My Drug
2. Stephen
3. Sleazy
4. Backstabber
5. Grow a Pear (so cute!)

My PopMatters review is forthcoming! I compare her favorably to Neko Case!

[talrose.livejournal.com]

"The Harold Song" sounds to me like the inverse of "Stephen," Ke$ha's creepiness and stalkerish tendencies told from the point of view of Ke$ha herself, rather than a third-person account of the Ke$ha character. The drama on "The Harold Song" is exaggerated, but so are Ke$ha's feelings towards Harold, and the music is kind of goth, so there's an implicit message of suicide, or at least its suggestion when she sings about not being able to take it. I also kind of like the melody and the chorus, which twists unexpectedly into this bizarre whinny just when I think it's going to surge, its anticlimactic touch actually a bit off-putting and kind of sharp.

ok, maybe it's not my LEAST favorite

[joshlanghoff.livejournal.com]

That dubious title is now claimed by "Dancing with Tears in My Eyes", which, considering my wife just walked in the room during "Harold" and started singing "LOSIN' IT! I'm LOSIN' IT!", seems to bear a striking similarity to the song in question. Maybe I just don't like K's suicidal songs. The whinny's nice, but I don't get which song you hear as a third-person account. Aren't they both from K's point of view?

[talrose.livejournal.com]

Well, if this makes any sense, I feel like we're seeing Ke$ha's point of view on "Stephen," whereas I think we're actually seeing "The Harold Song" from Ke$ha's point of view. I also realize that sounds moronic, but I think the contrast in the songs is where each one situates the listener. "Stephen" is Ke$ha projecting outward, and "The Harold Song" is Ke$ha projecting inward.

[joshlanghoff.livejournal.com]

So she's singing "Stephen" while she's feeling "Harold"? "Harold" reveals the vulnerability of the stalker lady, the compulsions that drive her to stalk? Interesting... I guess I hear the two songs as more a before-and-after scenario, although I'd never linked them before you mentioned it. (I'm gonna be silent for awhile now; later!)

meta-stalking?

[koganbot]

And where would "Cannibal" land in the point-of-view sweepstakes? In that one Ke$ha is explaining her stalker principles to her victim the object of her desire.